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Nov 19, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Colin Galloway |Karen Jordan |Anthony Teles
Type: Affordable housing fundDate Founded: 2016First Property Purchased: 2018Units Acquired in First Five Years: 2,150Value of Those Units: $400 millionIn 2015, Austin, Texas’ mayor at the time, Steve Adler, brought together business leaders, real estate professionals, and housing experts to take on the rental housing affordability crisis threatening the city’s workforce stability and economic sustainability.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Karen Jordan |Hannah Miet |Kelly Annis
The modern downtown must become a mixed-use urban environment—single-use office districts will not survive. Report: Recalibrating the current single-use nature of the downtown district will require concerted effort, and starting with placemaking activities and programming to attract people to the area can help jump-start the process of creating a 24/7 mixed-use neighborhood.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Karen Jordan |Hannah Miet |Jennie Lynn Rudder
Extreme weather events, driven by climate change, are continually testing the limits of our urban infrastructure, making resilient communities more important than ever. Resilience is not only the ability to withstand and bounce back from these disruptions—it’s about anticipating and preparing for them in a way that strengthens and augments the larger community.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Beth Mattson-Teig |Karen Jordan |Hannah Miet
Affordability and low inventory are continuing to create pain points for the housing market. According to newly released data from the National Association of REALTORS (NAR), pending home sales are at their lowest level since the Great Financial Crisis. Existing-home sales for August dropped 4.2 percent from a year ago to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.86 million.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Karen Jordan |Marta Schantz |Michele Lerner
Northern Mexico has experienced a significant expansion in the Mexican industrial real estate sector since its major decline from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, due, in part, to low-cost production in China. During the pandemic, that trend began to shift. “What happened [during] the pandemic was a serious lockdown in China, at a national level,” says Juan Zúñiga, an international transactions attorney who is a managing partner at San Diego–based Rimon PC.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Beth Mattson-Teig |Brian Bailey |Michele Lerner |Karen Jordan
Commercial real estate loans totaling almost $1.8 trillion are set to mature before the end of 2026, according to Trepp. One sign of the accompanying stress is the commercial mortgage–backed security (CMBS) special servicing rate, with its latest numbers inching up to 8.2 percent, the highest since June 2021.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Jacqueline Gonzalez Touzet |Karen Jordan |Ron Nyren
Jacqueline Gonzalez Touzet In summer 1992, I graduated from Cornell and returned home to Miami to start my career as an architect, just in time to witness Hurricane Andrew’s devastation of South Florida. What left a deep impression on me was how we responded as a community and changed our codes to help us build back better and stronger. That catastrophe, which took 65 lives and caused $27 billion in damage, led to significant changes in Florida Building Codes for wind design.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Sibley Fleming |Karen Jordan |Ron Nyren |Ken Rhee
The property—at 22 Drydock Avenue, in Boston’s Seaport District—is slated to be the city’s first life sciences building to achieve LEED Platinum and net-zero carbon emissions. In early April 2024, Small Change, an investment crowdfunding platform for real estate development with social impact, and Boston Real Estate Inclusion Fund (BREIF) jointly announced an investment opportunity in a $430 million life sciences building under development by Related Beal.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Karen Jordan |Ron Nyren |Beth Mattson-Teig
Chicago has become one of the many major cities nationwide whose downtown office market has been negatively affected by the pandemic and the associated increase in remote work. To boost development in its downtown core, the city of Chicago recently announced that it will offer $150 million in subsidies to real estate developers. The move will help develop more than 1,000 apartments in four separate adaptive-use developments.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Hannah Miet |Karen Jordan |Patricia Kirk
The natural reaction to hearing that a product or material has been made with the assistance of modern slavery is to flinch in horror and perhaps disbelief. Unfortunately, the construction industry is ranked second—just behind domestic service—as a problematic industry in terms of its risk of relying on forced labor, according to the 2022 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Forced Marriage report from the International Labour Organization in Geneva.
